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Our wonderful friend, Councilman Greenfield is tipping at windmills and speaking out against the obnoxious custom of saturation bombing the driving public with parking tickets on Black Friday. You see, many of our driving buddies believe that Black Friday is a parking holiday in NYC. Unfortunately, it’s not.

Councilman David Greenfield will introduce legislation this week to stop the city from issuing parking tickets on the day after Thanksgiving — typically the most lucrative day of the year.

“I’m proposing this (because) most people believe that this is already the case,” Greenfield said. “Last year, the day after Thanksgiving we got many, many calls from constituents who said, ‘I can’t believe I got a parking ticket.’ ”

Because schools are off and many businesses are closed, many New Yorkers wrongly believe parking rules are waived. Enforcement agents reportedly log twice their normal amount of tickets on Black Friday. [ Via NYC Daily News].

Community Board 12 requests a reduced street cleaning schedule

Community Board 12, consisting of Inwood and Washington Heights, was the first-ever CB to request a reduced street cleaning schedule. And guess what? It was granted by the Sanitation Department.

The department announced that it had accepted the community board’s proposal to reduce residential street cleanings in Washington Heights and Inwood from four to two cleanings per week, according to the Department of Sanitation.

According to the DSNY, the reduced street cleaning schedule will mean residents only need to move their parked cars once a week per each side of the street.

Street cleaning in commercials areas will be increased to six times a week, Monday through Saturday, and will now take place during the day instead of overnight, according to the department.

“The department announced that it had accepted the community board’s proposal to reduce residential street cleanings in Washington Heights and Inwood from four to two cleanings per week, according to the Department of Sanitation.

According to the DSNY, the reduced street cleaning schedule will mean residents only need to move their parked cars once a week per each side of the street.

Street cleaning in commercials areas will be increased to six times a week, Monday through Saturday, and will now take place during the day instead of overnight, according to the department.”

The cold winds of change are blowing briskly in the Manhattan parking core

“After more than three years of work, the Department of City Planning has released its proposed changes to the rules governing off-street parking in much of Manhattan. Some parking experts are calling it a necessary step toward continued reform, while neighborhood watchdogs fear that DCP’s proposed changes will ultimately lead to more driving in the city’s congested center.” [Streetsblog.org].

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Cheryl Pahaham, CB12’s vice chair at the time, argued that Inwood and Washington Heights already struggle with an epic rat problem, filthy streets and sidewalks with overflowing trash, and food grease from street vendors commonly spilled out on sidewalks and streets, and cannot afford to limit cleaning services.

“I don’t feel with our current habits the way they are that we’re ready to ask the Department of Sanitation to reduce the number of times we clean,” she said when the plan was approved by the board last year.